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No. 663,276. Patented Dec. 4, I900.

W. C. HORINE.

CORN CONVEYEB.

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IVALTER O. HORINE, OF ARROVVSMITH, ILLINOIS.

CORN-CONVEYER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 663,276, dated December 4, 1900.

Application filed March 16, 1900. Serial No. 8,943. (No model.)

T0 on whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER O. HoRINE,a citizen of the United States, residing at Arrowsmith, in the county of McLean and State of Illinois, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Oorn-Oonveyers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to certain improvements in what may be termed corn-conveyers, adapted for use more especially in connection with shellers.

It has for its object to promote convenience in the arrangement of the conveyor with relation to the corn-crib and the sheller, to provide for readily supporting the conveyor in position without other or additional means than the ground, to dispense with such additional means as heretofore employed therefor, to greatly simplify construction and therefore lessen the cost of manufacture, and to otherwise improve the construction and arrangement of the parts of the device.

It consists principally of a feeder-hinged section or extension and a conveyor, together with mechanism for actuating the endless chains or belts arranged in the respective sections of the conveyor from the sheller or other suitable means for imparting motion thereto or driving the same, and of certain details of construction and combinations of parts, substantially as hereinafter more fully disclosed, and specifically pointed out by the claims.

It will be understood that latitude is allowed herein as to details, as they may be changed or varied at pleasure, according to circumstances, without departing from the spirit of my invention and the same yet remain intact and be protected.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the preferred embodimentof my invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view of sufficient of a corn-sheller looking toward its receiving or feeding end to show the application of the invention thereto with the hinged section of the feeder folded back out of use. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail view of an endless chain or bolt shaft and intergeared shafts. Fig. 3 is a broken-away sectional view disclosing an endless chain or belt of the hinged section of the sheller-feeder. view of the conveyor in sections as arranged in position with relation to said feeder. Fig. 5 is a side view of the tumbling or driving shaft and the gearing between it and a conveyor endless chain or belt shaft. Fig. 6 is a detailed view of a belt-tightener applied to a belt compassing sprocket-wheels or pulleys on shafts of sections of the conveyor. Fig. 7 is a broken detailed side view disclosing more particularly an angular terminal of a belt-shaft to which the driving-shaft is applied when the conveyer sections or troughs are arranged at an angle to the corn-sheller feeder. Fig. 8 is a plan view showing the corn sheller feeder and conveyor sections arranged in alinoment, with the latter, also shown in dotted lines, disposed or deflected somewhat at an angle or out of alinoment with the feeder. Fig. 9 is a side elevation thereof, parts being broken away. Fig. 10 is a broken plan view showing more particularly the lower part of the corn-sheller feeder and a portion of a corn-conveyor section, the same being arranged or disposed at right angles to each other. Fig. 11 is a detailed view showing more particularly the guard or arroster to prevent the falling or rolling of the corn back under the endless belt or carrier therefor.

In carrying out my invention I provide a conveyor comprising a requisite or suitable number of sections 1 1, preferablyin the form of troughs. These are preferably provided with upper edge divergent boards or guards 1 1 to insure the falling of the ear-corn into said troughs as the attendent shovels or pushes it from the corn-crib, alongside of which one of said conveyor sections or troughs is disposed or arranged. The con- Fig. 4 is a perspective veyersections or troughs 1 1 are provided with suitable endless chain bolts 2 2, having flights or blades to engage and carry the corn along said conveyor-sections and finally deliver it to the hopper of the hinged section or extension 3 of the feeder 4 of the sheller presently described. The shafts 5 of the pulleys or sprocket-wheels 6, around which pass said chains or bolts 2, bear in the sides of said conveyor sections or brackets attached there to. The projecting ends of adjacent shafts means of a tightener 9 of any ordinary or approved construction and suitably hung in.

position upon the side of the conveyer-section.

Apin or bolt 10, with its upper suitably constructed or enlarged angular end fastened to the side of one conveyer-section, is adapted to enter or engage an eye or staple 11, suitably secured to the side of the other conveyersection just below or in vertical alinement with said bolt, to connect said conveyor-sections, and to provide for readily disposing or arranging the required conveyer-section with relation to the corn-crib, as circumstances may make it necessary, as will be readily understood.

As above intimated, I provide the cornsheller feeder l with a hinged section 3, adapted in all respects to constitute or form a continuation or extension of said feeder and preferably adapted to reach down to and rest upon the ground or close thereto, its extreme lower end being provided with a hopper 14 or adapted to have placed therein such, the purpose of which has been before referred to. Said hinged section or extension of the feeder has arranged in its lower end a shaft 15, provided with sprocket-wheels or pulleys 16, compassed by the lower portion of the endless chain or belt 17 of the feeder 4E. Said belt or chain carries transverse edgewise-arranged pieces or flights 18 to engage and elevate the corn delivered into said hinged section or extension of the sheller-feeder from the conveyer aforesaid. Also arranged in the lower end of said hinged section or extension is an edgewise-disposed plate 19, which, together with a cross piece or bar 19 suitably suspended in position in said hinged section, forms an arrester or guard adapted to prevent the corn being elevated by the belt or its flights from falling or rolling back under the latter accidentally. Said plate has formed integrally therewith a spring arm or extension 19 extending from its lower edge and preferably curved or bowed upward, as shown, and having its outer end or edge bent into tubular form to receive a rod or pivot 19", secured in the sides of said hinged section. Said guard or plate 19 is thus adapted not only to normally rest upon the belt, but by reason of its springy character and being pivoted it will sufficiently rebound to prevent undue hammering of the belt and yet not be displaced or its efficiency interfered with. Said plate is thus held automatically down upon the belt or chain of said hinged section and will rearwardly yield upward as the flights pass thereunder and consequently automatically resume its normal position under the action of its spring. Outward or rearward displacement of the crossbar 19 is prevented by cleats or projections 20 relatively arranged therewith and suitably secured at the sides of said hinged section or extension.

In order to drive the endless chains or belts 2 of the corn-conveyers, I provide, preferably, a tumbling-rod shaft 21 in longitudinally sliding or extensible sections 21 21 suitably splined together, as shown, or otherwise against independent axial movement or turning. Said rod or shaft sections are connected to the driving-gear of the sheller and to the conveyer-helt gearing, respectively, by universal couplings or joints 22 23, each comprising a ring 23, one of two half-circle forks 2* on the outer ends of the shaft-sections, respectively, and one of two half circles or forks 25 on theends of socket-pieces 26, one adapted to receive one of two bevel gear-shafts 27 16 of said belt and sheller gearing, respectively. These half circles or forks 24 25 are connected or pivoted to the ring 23 at points in lines passing through or intersecting each other at right angles, whereby said sectional shaft 21 may readily accommodate itself to difierent angular presentations or positions with relation to the sheller, thus providing for like relative arrangement or placing of the conveyor-sections, as disclosed in one figure of the drawings. The conveyer-sections may also be disposed or arranged in substantial alinement with the feeder of the sheller, according as circumstances may require. When the conveyor is arranged at an angle to the feeder of the corn-sheller, as shown in Fig. 1, the bevel-gearing is dispensed with and the driving-shaft directly connected or coupled to the angularterminals 29 of the endless-belt pulley-shaft. By means of the fore going also the conveyer-belts may be driven from either side, as may be required, for greater convenience or of necessity.

When the-apparatus or device is notin use, the hinged section or extension may be folded up under the feeder of the sheller out of the way, as shown, thus economizing room or space and housing the same, as it were, for convenience in transporting the machine along the road or elsewhere.

It will be observed that by means of this device or apparatus it is not necessary to suspend the conveyersections and the corn sheller feeder when feeding the corn to the sheller in an elevated position, and conse qu en tly provide additional means or facilities therefor, the conveyor-sections, together with the feeder, in my apparatusbeing adapted to rest upon the ground, and said conveyer-sections adapted to deliver their contents into the corn-sheller feeder through the medium of the hinged section or extension, as before stated. 7

Having thus fully described my invention, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is y 1. In apparatus of the character described, the feeder for a corn-sheller, 860., comprising a lower hinged section or extension and an endless carrying-belt, a conveyer adapted to deliver into said lower hinged section or extension, and a guard or arrester comprising a suspended cross piece or bar, cleats or projections adapted to engage and prevent rearward displacement of said cross piece or bar, and a spring-supported plate arranged contiguously to, and in rear of, said cross piece or bar, substantially as specified 2. In apparatus of the character described, a corn-sheller and its feeder comprising pulleys or wheels, and endless carryingbelts compassing said pulleys or wheels, one of the shafts of said pulleys or Wheels having a bevel-faced pinion and an angular terminal, the corn-sheller gear, and a driving or tumbling shaft having a pinion adapted to mesh with said bevel-faced pinion and an angular socket adapted to engage said angular terminal, said shaft also adapted to engage said corn sheller gearing, substantially as set forth.

3. In apparatus of the character described, a corn-sheller with its gearing, and a feeder, comprising an upper main section anda lower folding section, and an endless carrier arranged in said feeder-sections, means for carrying said folding section, a conveyor having an endless carrier, and gearing for driving said carrier, said conveyer delivering into said folding section, and tumbling rod or shaft mechanism adapted to actuate the cornsheller gearing and the endless carrier-gearing, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

W. O. HORINE. Witnesses:

MoRvEN THOMPSON, EDWIN B. H. TOWER, Jr. 

